There’s a 1200-foot asteroid headed straight for the Earth. You’ve got five days to come up with a plan, or go the way of the dinosaurs. This isn’t the script for the Day After Tomorrow sequel — it’s the scenario being war-gamed by a roomful of PhDs as we speak. »4/17/15 12:40pm 4/17/15 12:40pm

Windows honcho Steve "Don't Blame Me For Vista, I Was Running Office At The Time" Sinofsky hinted that he would whip out an impressively low-powered device to show how skinny Windows 7 can get. Sure enough, today at his keynote at PDC 2008, he waved a Asus EeePC running Win 7 with a 1GHz processor and just 1GB of RAM.…
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Apparently, a
simple blog post »10/06/08 8:20pm 10/06/08 8:20pm about getting Windows 7 early by attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in October or the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in November wasn't enough. No, Microsoft had to drive the point home by getting a fake boy band to sing a song about PDC,…

Who isn't ready for Windows 7? That wiser, stabler,
more streamlined »9/25/08 8:00pm 9/25/08 8:00pm OS with but an and an alleged ? Heck, even Bill Gates is excited to . You can get your hands on a "pre-beta" version of Windows 7 by attending the (PDC) in LA October 27 to 30, or the (WinHEC), also in LA shortly after, from November 5 to 7. Go…

Details on the multi-touch functionality in Windows 7 are only a couple of days old, but it appears that Microsoft is already looking ahead with a multi-touch SDK slated for release at this year's Professional Developers Conference in October. At that time, Microsoft is expected to "highlight the new multi-touch… »5/29/08 2:30pm 5/29/08 2:30pm